Art in the Christian Tradition

Download Thumbnail image:

Download Medium image:

Download Large image:

Title:

St. Vitale - Emperor Justinian Offering the Bread of the Eucharist

Notes:

Mosaic panel on the left (north) wall of the apse depicting Emperor Justinian, clothed in full regalia and standing in the center of a retinue of clergy, officials and soldiers (flanked on the right by Bishop Maximian), bringing the bread of the Eucharist to the altar

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to use and to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license compatible with this one. For uses other than the above, contact the Divinity Library at divref@vanderbilt.edu.

Attribution:

St. Vitale - Emperor Justinian Offering the Bread of the Eucharist, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=32148 [retrieved August 17, 2017]. Original source: Images donated by Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University.